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“Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.”

Firsts Guy Fall Girl Roles Military Training Prepared Falling In Love Soldier Excellent Transsexuals Juilliard

Author:Lee Pace

“It was an axiom of "containment" that no part of the known world could be considered neutral. "Neutralism" was among the Cold Warriors' gravest curse words, applied with caustic hostility to India and even France. Those who were not with were against, subjected to intense economic and ideological and sometimes military pressure to fall into line.”

Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

“Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.”

Fall Social Economic Military Direct Victim Unions Defeat Empires Soviet Soviet Union Strain Fragmented Disintegration

Book:The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

Source: The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

“I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.”

Hard Fall Military Months Broke Nightmare Skydiving

Author:Bear Grylls

“It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.”

“A superpower that no longer stands for anything, that no one believes in anymore, that is seen only as a bully, will fall despite its military might. If the Bush administration ever wanted to reflect on history, it might think about this.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Might Wanted Fall Military Despite Administration Bully Superpower

Author:Mark Kurlansky

“There's so much going on in Andrei [Bolkonsky]. He's wrangling with these big existential conundrums, and he tries out different routes to fulfillment. He tries falling in love, that doesn't work. He goes to war and searches for military glory, that doesn't work. He does the quiet life of a farmer. He's always active. That's what I loved about him, he's always looking, searching. He's really inquisitive.”

Trying Doe Different War Bigs Fall Military Quiet Glory Falling In Love Active Fulfillment Farmers Existential Routes Inquisitive Quiet Life Conundrums Wrangling

Author:James Norton

“The leading, the most respected Vietnam historian, military historian Bernard Fall -he was a hawk incidentally, but he cared for the Vietnamese - he said it wasn't clear to him whether Vietnam could survive as a historical and cultural entity under the most massive attack that any region that size had ever suffered. He was talking about South Vietnam, incidentally.”

Said Fall Talking Clear Military Historical South Size Regions Massive Historian Vietnam Entity Hawks Vietnamese

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.”

Want Fall Passion Military Height Rising Patriotism Professionalism True Patriotism

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi